Quote (thesnipa @ May 7 2018 03:38pm)

Currently playing the game of how much can i reduce my grocery bill by growing as much food as possible.

7 chickens give me about 5 eggs a day. I eat about 3 per day and freeze the rest into egg patties for breakfast sandwitches and use in cooking stuff like fried rice.

4 Apple Trees gave me around 10 bushels of apples last year. Looking for 12 this year. 3 gallons of sauce made last year, looking for 4-5 this year.

Cherry Tree gave me only a gallon or so of cherries, the damn birds eat them the day they turn ripe. I think i'm going to let them have them as they're too tart to eat. Baking cherries only.

2 Pear trees gave me 2 bushels last year. Looking to double that, eat most of them in the fall but i peal, halve, boil, add cinnamon, and freeze a lot.

15 foot x 50 foot red raspberry patch, last year I harvested only about 10 gallons of berries. WAY down from 2016 due to bad rain/heat index. Season looking good. Looking for 30 gallons of berries, half or more frozen. 1-2 batches of preserves = whole year of jelly. Quarter that out of my smaller black raspberry patch, if i'm lucky.

5 18 inch diameter pots allocated to spring onions, rotate them 3-2 so after a few weeks i have small onions all year, i grow these in our porch and they over-winter well.

2 36 inch whisky barrels for spring lettuce mix. 3 foot x 6 foot raised bed with 10 varieties of lettuce. Grown with zero space between = no weeding, stops water from evaporating. Once mature you cut an entire row of lettuce and let it grow back. Last year we got so much lettuce i was giving half to the chickens and we ate so many salads i thought i'd shit pure green. Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWeFH1MVHko

3 foot x 6 foot bed of strawberries. As this is year 2, and i wasn't even supposed to get fruit last year (got about 3 gallons on the year) i'm shooting for about 10 gallons of berries on the season.

6 broccoli plants, 6 cauliflower plants, large bed of carrots, large bed of potatoes, large bed of onions, 2 varieties of peas, 2 varieties of beans, 2 varieties of cucumbers, 2 varieties of Kale, sweet corn, 3 hot peppers, 4 bell peppers, 2 canning tomatoes, 2 cherry tomatoes, separate bed of sorghum and pumpkins for the chickens to eat.

3 deer tags filled, 10 rabbits, 3 pheasant, 4 ducks, 20 lbs fish, is my game goal.

Quote (excellence @ May 7 2018 01:14pm)

send me fresh eggs plz i pay in lvl 24 gear

Quote (bonnerf2 @ May 7 2018 01:21pm)

There is your problem. Large is not large enough.

Quote (thesnipa @ May 7 2018 09:06pm)

LOL I regularly pay off people i work with in eggs. "Hey man, sorry about that curveball from the customer. do you eat eggs? Goooood goooooooood."



potato starts are some of the worst return on investment if you buy them. i'm slowly building up a pile of them from year to year. so this year is bigger than last. some day i shall be the potato king of wisconsin if i keep my pace. last year we mixed in purple fingerlings which are delicious. i fullfilled my dream of making a rabbit stew out of 100% items from my yard, except water/butter. i cant make butter......yet. so this shite brand called kerrygold had to do :P

Quote (bonnerf2 @ May 7 2018 04:20pm)

/e apparently milking rabbits is a thing in the Netherlands - they use protein from the milk to make a drug... amazing what you can learn from google.

Quote (bonnerf2 @ May 7 2018 10:31am)

Age of empires 2.

Tried two fames of fortnite. Didnt even manage to get off a single shot. Gave up on fortshite.

Quote (TShaman @ May 8 2018 11:35am)

Give back scammed Elo!! damn irish trickery...cleasaíocht

Quote (bonnerf2 @ May 8 2018 11:46am)

Be careful or next time I will take 30! :evil:

Reminds me of a great curse in Irish: Go ndeine an diabhal dréimire de cnámh do dhroma ag piocadh úll i ngairdín Ifrinn (may the devil make a ladder out of your spine to pick apples in the garden of hell).

Quote (bonnerf2 @ May 8 2018 12:10pm)

The door is always open for you to take them back :) Alternatively you can do the same and pick on Seby and Austin ;)

My favourite Danish one is still "Der er kommunister i lysthuset"